Fun fact: I watched the pilot for Enterprise for the first time right before watching Discovery.
Both pilots left me with much the same feeling.
I love Enterprise. All of the senior staff are great. Archer, T’Pol, Trip, Reed, Hoshi, and Travis. They all are interesting characters in their own right. And Scott Bakula is a fantastic actor.
The main problem Enterprise has is actually addressed by Archer himself—they keep getting drawn in to the temporal cold war so much that Archer has to straight up tell Daniels to knock it off.
I haven’t seen more than the pilot for Enterprise, but save from the song choices it wasn’t bad. The actors are decent, but I’ve no desire to see the rest of the show. Same with Discovery. I enjoy Michelle Yeoh but the crew interaction doesn’t endear me to them at all.
You could just skip to season 3 and 4. 😉
What is wrong with the first two seasons?
Like TNG, it took them a while to find out what kind of Trek they wanted to be. The show just kind of meanders along aside from the Temporal Cold War arc. It’s Season 3 that ups the ante with a season long arc with a lot of cliffhangers, and 4 is where they really hit their stride and become the TOS prequel it should have been.
There are some good episodes in the first two seasons and some clunkers. Probably less than Voyager had.